Donate
Donate
Donate

 MAKE A DONATION 

Help protect Australia’s wild places from feral deer.

Feral deer are causing immense damage to Australia’s wildlife and wild places. Right now, there is a rare opportunity to get ahead of this growing threat.
DONATE TODAY

Invasive species are driving more than 80 per cent of Australia’s most vulnerable native plants and animals towards extinction.

Feral animals

Invasive insects

Invasive plants

Pathogens

Together we can protect Australia’s wildlife from the destructive effects of invasive species.

LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DO

Take action today

Don’t let governments off the hook, help us call for real action that protects our natural environment from invasive species.

Australia is the land of parrots. Let's keep it that way.

No country on Earth has parrots like ours. Of the 56 species found in Australia, 51 live nowhere else, from the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot to the swift parrot. Yet right now, the Australian Government is considering reopening the door to live parrot imports, and the deadly diseases that could come with them.

ACT NOW

Give Australian wildlife a fighting chance against bird flu

H5 bird flu is at our doorstep and it can't be stopped — but we can help our most vulnerable species survive it. Add your name and call on the Government to fund a $200-million Wildlife Resilience Fund.

Act Now

Stop Australia’s extinction crisis - tell your federal member of parliament to act now

Australia’s wildlife is under attack. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day – invasive species are capturing and killing native animals, trashing and trampling protected areas and driving our wildlife closer to extinction.

Act Now

News

The latest news and updates from our campaigns
Mobile - Feral Pig Banner
New feral pig control regulation in NSW a landmark biosecurity step
27 July, 2026
 | By  Kim Smith
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government's decision to issue a General Biosecurity Direction for pig control, requiring public and private landholders in the Walgett region to participate in a coordinated feral pig eradication program, with landholders who fail to comply facing fines...
Read more
27224611213_6b29bac17c_o
Bird flu may be spreading within Australian wildlife as seven new South Australian cases detected
27 July, 2026
 | By  Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council says the suspected detection of 7 new cases of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in greater crested terns at the same site in South Australia may mark a significant turning point in Australia's outbreak, raising concerns the virus is now spreading within local wild bird po...
Read more
Rabbits_South Australia_2026_credit Mick Williams (1)
Federal investment kickstarts next generation of rabbit biocontrol research
27 July, 2026
 | By  Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Albanese Government's investment in the future of rabbit biocontrol, saying the $2.6 million Commonwealth contribution towards a $4 million Phase 1 national partnership is an important first step towards protecting Australia's native wildlife from one of...
Read more
cropped-cropped-MR-Facebook-1200x630-14
Landmark funding puts world's largest inhabited island cat eradication within reach
25 July, 2026
 | By  Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a landmark $2.7 million investment from the Australian Government to complete the Dudley Peninsula Feral Cat Eradication Program on Kangaroo Island, capping off an innovative funding partnership that will deliver the world's largest feral cat eradication ever...
Read more
27224611213_6b29bac17c_o
Queensland bird flu detection reinforces need for urgent wildlife resilience funding
24 July, 2026
 | By  Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council says the first suspected case of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu in Queensland highlights the urgent need for a $200 million wildlife resilience package to protect native species. 
Read more
cropped-MR-Facebook-1200x630-23-1
Court rejects application to halt aerial culling in Kosciuszko
9 July, 2026
 | By  Nicola Barton
Today the NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected an application from pro-brumby activists to halt aerial culling in Kosciuszko National Park.
Read more

Your good will for nature.

Invasive species destroy our natural places and transform the landscape, leaving our native animals without shelter or food and natural systems destroyed. You can help create an Australia where our unique wildlife is safe in flourishing protected areas.

Create a wildlife revival

Your gift is a lifeline for nature.

Our protected areas are being trashed, trampled, choked and polluted by an onslaught of invaders. Invasive species are already the overwhelming driver of our animal extinction rate, and are expected to cause 75 of the next 100 extinctions.

But you can help to turn this around and create a wildlife revival in Australia. 

From numbats to night parrots, a tax-deductible donation today can help defend our wildlife against the threat of invasive weeds, predators, and diseases.

As the only national advocacy environment group dedicated to stopping this mega threat, your gift will make a big difference.

Donate Today

Do you need help?

Accordion Content

A silent crisis is unfolding across Australia. Every year, billions of native animals are hunted and killed by cats and foxes. Fire ants continue to spread and threaten human health. And the deadly strain of bird flu looms on the horizon. Your donation today will be used to put the invasive species threat in the media, make invasive species a government priority, ensure governments take rapid action to protect nature and our remarkable native wildlife from invasives-led extinction, death and destruction.

Donate Now

If you are having trouble submitting a form, please read this guide.

Please fill out the following form and one of our team will be in contact to assist as soon as possible. Please make sure to include any helpful information, such as the device you were using (computer, tablet or mobile phone) and if known, your browser (Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc)

"*" indicates required fields

Name*
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
Drop files here or
Accepted file types: jpg, gif, png, docx, doc, pdf, txt, Max. file size: 10 MB, Max. files: 4.

    Dear Project Team,

    [YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.] 

    I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.

    The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.

    The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.

    This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.

    Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.

    Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.

    Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.

    I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.

    Kind regards,
    [Your name]
    [Your email address]
    [Your postcode]


    Dear Project Team,

    [YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.] 

    I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.

    The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.

    The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.

    This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.

    Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.

    Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.

    Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.

    I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.

    Kind regards,
    [Your name]
    [Your email address]
    [Your postcode]